Ashley T. Rubin, Penal Scientist
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One of the weird things about studying prison history is how many things we do today that we used to do and abandoned bc it was "barbaric" or "uncivilized" or
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Now is a great time to remind folks about how we released people in the past to keep the prison population under control. See this study by Shelly Messinger and
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The way we think about trends is broken and it's affecting our reaction to COVID-19. We can learn from the research on prison history and mass incarceration. THREAD! Point 1:
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Okay, I've been wanting to write this post for a while, so here it goes: prisons+jail reform has a LONG history with disease. Let me explain.... 1/n Before I go
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